laxe

See also: laxé

Galician

Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe dos Carballos ("flat stone of the oaks")
Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe das Rodas ("flat stone of the wheels")

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagĕnā; from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; probably from Proto-Celtic *lăginā (“blade”). Confer Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaʃe̝/

Noun

laxe f (plural laxes)

  1. flagstone; slab
    Synonyms: lastra, lousa
  2. flat river pebble
    Synonym: callao
  3. flat rocky outcrop
    Synonym: lastra
  4. semi-submerged rock; reef
    Synonym: con

Derived terms

  • Lage
  • Laxe
  • laxedo
  • laxeira
  • laxento

Descendants

References

  • “lagia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “lage-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “laxe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “laxe” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “laxe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. laja.
  2. ↑ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61.

German

Adjective

laxe

  1. inflected form of lax

Latin

Adverb

laxē

  1. widely, spaciously
  2. loosely, freely
  3. (of time) long, amply

References

  • laxe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • laxe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • laxe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

laxe

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of laxar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of laxar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of laxar.
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